Motivational Quotes

Truth

Being free of pretence does not mean you are in touch with the truth. Sincerity is not proof.

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Best Quotes about Truth

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

Butler, Samuel

Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

Lincoln, Abraham

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Bohr, Niels

I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out.

Birmingham, Wayne

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Collier, Robert

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Churchill, Winston

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

Gordimer, Nadine

There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth.

Runbeck, Margaret Lee

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Mencken, H. L.

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You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

Davies, Robertson

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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Augustine, St.

12.

See it like it is!

Cohen, Herb

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Mann, Horace

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Prove all things, hold fast to that which is true.

Bible

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While you live tell the truth and shame the devil.

Shakespeare, William

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Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What is true belongs to me!

Seneca

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Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Emre, Yumus

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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Woolf, Virginia

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Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.

William Shakespeare

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Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently

Deupree, Richard

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The truth is on the march and nothing will stop it.

Zola, Emile

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The ultimate aim of the human mind, in all its efforts, is to become acquainted with Truth.

Farnham, Eliza

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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.

Sockman, Ralph W.

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We spend all our time looking for some concept of Truth, but Truth is what is left when we drop all concepts.

Merzel, David

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To be persuasive, we must be believable. To be believable, we must be credible. To be credible, we must be truthful.

Walters, Hellmut

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There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

Brittain, Vera

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Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

Renard, Jules

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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.

Lowell, James Russell

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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

Scott Westerfeld

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Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

Hall, Calvin S.

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In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just without any social consideration but are regarded by all as being deprived of that foremost human dignity, reason itself -- only those people, in fact, are capable of telling the truth. All the others lie.

Weil, Simone

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There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.

Berlin, Irving

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I know now that there is no one thing that is true -- it is all true.

Hemingway, Ernest

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No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

Stevens, Wallace

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I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Truth alone wounds.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah. [The Savior's Manual]

Bach, Richard

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Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Liebig

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With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.

Baudrillard, Jean

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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived, and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

Kennedy, John F.

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A half truth is a whole lie.

Proverb, Yiddish

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The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.

Brandes, George

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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Valery, Paul

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The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.